andra rusu

* Articulate and sustain business requirements to building “to be” processes and tool enhancements that streamline NPI KPIs tracking (writing business cases, test cases, signing off on deployments). * Coordinate functional teams (technical, marketing, finance, product management) to meet projects’ milestones. * Act as an internal adviser for executive management and best practices focal point for improvements in NPI performance measurement. * Deliver demos and technical trainings to new/existing customers. * Key local change management communicator – drive transition to Accolade. * Accomplishments: * Deployed a new algorithm for forecasting in Accolade – Honeywell’s Project Management Tool, resulting in a more accurate overview of product’s sales trend and ramp-up. * Relieved team bandwidth by redesigning duplicate processes for one business unit.

* Analyze business requirements from management and users to define the BI solution (in Cognos) needed to produce the required output. * Build and update reports for top management. * Consolidate and prepare financial closing of the month – make sure local databases are in sync with central one (Hyperion).

* Analyze list prices monthly according to cost, currency, market evolution and EMEA pricing strategies. * Prepare presentations for management based on monthly analysis and inputs from Product Managers, Finance and BU Directors. * Achievements: * Pricing Continuous Excellence Project: Documentations Lead – led a team of 11 in order to get all the processes documented and build standard way of work.

* Participate in admin & pricing requirements for enhancement or future design of new tool for pricing – Market Tool Optimizer (MPO) * Write test cases for UAT and gaining validation * Deliver trainings for sales community regarding pricing process transition to MPO. * Achievements: * Successfully deployed and implemented MPO and future enhancements. Designed & executed control process for pricing system data setup and reporting.

* Projects & Accomplishments: Implementation of a CRM project for customer retention. * Offering operational support for the sales activity of a sales Team of over 100 agents nationwide * Preparing sales presentations for management * Delivering training for the agents regarding internal procedures, CRM implementation and effective sales strategies.

* Define reports and interactive dashboards for financial metrics to support executive and top management and ad-hoc requests from different functions (marketing, finance) on new products being launched. * Design and own process for data setup and reporting. * Propose and develop performance metrics on NPIs. * Translate business requirements into reporting deliverables (write and participate in UAT, validate, deploy). * Deliver cross-functional trainings on processes and reporting tools (Accolade, Business Objects) * Achievements: * Designed first dashboard to track NPIs performance versus forecasting & the built and owned sustainable process which improved data accuracy by 60% for the business. * Streamlined & improved legacy reporting on NPI key metrics using new platform – Accolade Synerion.